Laurey Bennett-Levy

Biography

Laurey Bennett-Levy earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts at S.U.N.Y Albany where she studied painting. In addition to exhibiting in NYC & Los Angeles, Bennett-Levy has shown in an extensive number of group juried gallery and museum shows as a featured artist. Her work is collected across the USA in private homes and public spaces.   

Her travels influence her practice as she aggregates repetitive grids in nature and urban landscapes as catalysts for her content. Current events tensions and life struggles have impacted her work.   

This assemblage series merges her competence as a graphic designer and fine artist using an unusual combined process of photography, cyanotype, digital manipulation, lithography, mono-printing, silkscreening, oil painting, resin, and collage.

In addition to painting, Laurey is an advocate supporting public schools and has directed curriculum-based school-wide art shows and in-class education for the underserved. She has been selected for fellowships by Arts4LA and The LA County Arts Education Collective in the pursuit of quality and equality arts education. Founder of "impART Council", she currently nurtures students and emerging artists who aspire to make a career in visual arts in her free Sunday Speaker Series where she offers expert speakers.  

Curriculum Vitae

BA of Fine Arts at S.U.N.Y at Albany Abstract Painter, Printmaker & Graphic Designer in LA & NYC Community Builder, Connector and Art Advocate  

2025 “unEarthed → reRooting” New York Artists Circle, NY, NY

2025 “Breathe” Westbeth Gallery, NY, NY

2025 “Sacred Space” 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2025 “Telephone” Wow Gallery, NY, NY

2025 “New York I Love You” Circle Foundation for the Arts, Honorable Mention Award, NYC

2025 “Sacred Space” 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2025 “Tower Project,” Arts Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY

2024 “Emotions,” Gallerium Gallery, NY

2024 “Beyond the Scars,” Art Fluent, MA

2024 “/'ab,strak(t)/,” Art Fluent Online Gallery

2024 “Cityscapes,” Light Space & Time Online Gallery

2019-24 Saatchi's “The Other Art Fair,” Brooklyn, Santa Monica & LA

2023 “The Yard,” Visionary Projects, Featured Artist, NYC

2023 "Women in Art,” Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2023 “Cityscapes,” & “Small Time,” Light Space & Time Online Gallery

2023 “Small Works,” James May Gallery, Wisconsin 

2022 “Wreaths,” Arsenal Gallery, NYC

2020-23 “Confection,” “Small Time,” “Petite Works,” "Indistinct Chatter,” "Field of Vision,” "Aurora,” "Habitual,” "Open Show,” “Interiority,” Gallery 825, CA

2022 “Among Friends,” NYC

2022 “Facade,” Arts 2 Heart Project, Virtual Exhibit

2021-22“Superfine Art Fair,” NYC

2021 “The Really Good Abstract Art Show,” ShockBoxx Gallery, LA, CA

2021 "Re-Emergence! Explorations in Photography and Printmaking," Remarque Gallery, NM

2021 “Full Circle,” Woart, NYC

2021 “Mostly Monochrome,” NYC

2021 “Futurology,” “Embody,” “Urban Escapade,” featured artist, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT

2021 "Women in Art,” Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2021 John Wayne Cancer Research Center Lobby, Santa Monica, CA

2020 "New Beginnings,” San Fernando Valley Arts & Cultural Center, Encino, CA

2020 "Art in the Time of Corona,” Dab Art Gallery, Ventura, CA

2020 “Word,” ShockBoxx Gallery, LA, CA

2020 “Interconnected,” Alternative Photography Gallery, VT

2020 "Photography,” Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2020 "USPS Project,” Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NYC & Greenly Art Gallery LA

2020 “Interconnected,” World Cyanotype Day, Virtual Exhibit

2020 "Open Theme,” Light Space & Time Online Gallery

Artist Residencies

2025 Artist Residency, Luberon, France

2024 Artist Residency, Lake George, NY

Curation 

2025 “Scribbles,” co-curator for the New York Artists Circle, NY

Philanthropy

2022 Critique Group Leader, Gallery 825

2021-22 impART Council, Creator

2004-21 LAUSD Arts Education

2020 Mentoring, SAIC Graduates

2019 Arts for LA Educational Fellow

2019LA County Arts Culture Fellow

2019-20 SNAP Art Program, Creator

2018-19 Wise to Wise Readers Art Curriculum

2016 Spirit of Philanthropy Award, LAUSD School

Collections

Works in private collections throughout the USA

Artsy

1st Dibs

Affiliations

2026 The Painting Center

2022-25 NY Artists Circle

2022-23 NY Artist Equity

2022 Center of Cultural Innovation

2019-22 LA Art Association, Member and Group-Led Critique

2019-22 Female Design Council

Artist statement

I am in a futile search to repair and transform my nascent sentiment of lifelong loneliness. Childhood triggered the first emotional catalyst and the collapse of ideals ignited the second. 

To remedy this, I wander in urban cities photographing architectural grids created by unrecognized artisans as the physical foundation of my work. Eventually, this documentation takes on organic form and new life as I constantly reduce and redefine ordinary markers of existence and bring the outside, in. The series aptly named, “MITER”, is a union formed between two edges that meet at an intersection. 

The repetitive insignia that exists in each work is a street paver we often walk over, and symbolizes my metamorphosis to rebound, rebuild and restore as I translate this image into a variety of mediums and possibilities. 

In a constant pursuit to understand our collective human experience of loneliness, I encourage your rebirth, healing, and access to creativity and provoke us to rediscover the unnoticed and ubiquitous splendor of the unobserved.